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I received a wonderful email last week. A blogger who plays in the Premiership of Blogging asked me - me who plays in League Two, who fights relegation to Conference Premier - to send him my favorite bleg post of mine this year (I chose this one) for a year end post of his favorite bloggers. I am ridiculously flattered and disproportionately delighted.

I told the story - it's been a year or longer ago - of an email I received from someone I linked to repeatedly because she was posting good-fire who told me I might as well stop because she wasn't going to add me to her blogroll. I've linked since; she hasn't added me to her blogroll, nor has she sent an subsequent email asking me to stop sending traffic her way.

I post links because I find them interesting and think you will too. If I've blogrolled you it's because I use my blogroll as bookmarks: blogwhoring is secondary. (I posted an example of awesome blogwhoring below in links as gentle mockery to that particular blogwhore and as harsh self-mockery of my blogwhoring, which if not as audaciously direct is a relentlessly persistent.)

All of which to say, thanks for reading, linking, blogrolling, whatever. Should I earn promotion to League One, I won't forget any of you.

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• American Politics 101-01, 101-02.
• Did you know Joe Biden is vpotus-elect?
• American Dystopia: The Gameplan.
• Notes on Capitalism as Religion. (h/t wood s lot)
• It's election time at Poor Man!
• Sweet Caroline.
• Just a coincidence (h/t James).
• Ciudad Juarez, the real Santa Teresa of 2666 (with photos).
• Mocomopolis! Speaking of which, PURPLE LINE!
• West Virginia Hotdog Map!
• Check this post's third comment for AWESOME blogwhoring! I suppose pointing it out is a form of blogwhoring also, fwrtz. (UPDATE: Read the post itself - which I linked to previously - if you haven't already: you can see why Richard was blogwhored.)
• Today's corpse:

• The Inaugural Poet (who I'd never heard of), and morons.
• Hadn't heard of Jeffrey Yang either, though this makes it sound as if I should take a look.
• Friday Hope Blogging.
• Happy Zappadan!

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UPDATE: Frederick remembers 12/22's significance.

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#7?